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Quantum error correction promises a viable path to fault-tolerant computations, enabling exponential error suppression when the device's error rates remain below the protocol's threshold. This threshold, however, strongly depends on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Maurice D. Hanisch , Bence Hetényi , James R. Wootton

The paper study counter-dependent pseudorandom generators; the latter are generators such that their state transition function (and output function) is being modified dynamically while working: For such a generator the recurrence sequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Vladimir Anashin

This work considers stochastic optimization problems in which the objective function values can only be computed by a blackbox corrupted by some random noise following an unknown distribution. The proposed method is based on sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Charles Audet , Jean Bigeon , Romain Couderc , Michael Kokkolaras

Virtual black-box obfuscation is a strong cryptographic primitive: it encrypts a circuit while maintaining its full input/output functionality. A remarkable result by Barak et al. (Crypto 2001) shows that a general obfuscator that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Gorjan Alagic , Zvika Brakerski , Yfke Dulek , Christian Schaffner

We initiate a systematic study of pseudo-deterministic quantum algorithms. These are quantum algorithms that, for any input, output a canonical solution with high probability. Focusing on the query complexity model, our main contributions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Hugo Aaronson , Tom Gur , Jiawei Li

We propose a generalization of Zhandry's compressed oracle method to random permutations, where an algorithm can query both the permutation and its inverse. We show how to use the resulting oracle simulation to bound the success probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Christian Majenz , Giulio Malavolta , Michael Walter

A quantum encryption scheme (also called private quantum channel, or state randomization protocol) is a one-time pad for quantum messages. If two parties share a classical random string, one of them can transmit a quantum state to the other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis , Adam Smith

We construct a classical oracle relative to which $\mathsf{P} = \mathsf{NP}$ but quantum-computable quantum-secure trapdoor one-way functions exist. This is a substantial strengthening of the result of Kretschmer, Qian, Sinha, and Tal (STOC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 William Kretschmer , Luowen Qian , Avishay Tal

We consider error-correction coding schemes for adversarial wiretap channels (AWTCs) in which the channel can a) read a fraction of the codeword bits up to a bound $r$ and b) flip a fraction of the bits up to a bound $p$. The channel can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Eric Ruzomberka , Homa Nikbakht , Christopher G. Brinton , H. Vincent Poor

Pseudocode in a scholarly paper provides a concise way to express the algorithms implemented therein. Pseudocode can also be thought of as an intermediary representation that helps bridge the gap between programming languages and natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Levent Toksoz , Gang Tan , C. Lee Giles

We have formerly introduced Deep Random Secrecy, a new cryptologic technique capable to ensure secrecy as close as desired from perfection against unlimited passive eavesdropping opponents. We have also formerly introduced an extended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Thibault de Valroger

We consider coding schemes for computationally bounded channels, which can introduce an arbitrary set of errors as long as (a) the fraction of errors is bounded with high probability by a parameter $p$ and (b) the process which adds the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-01 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

A simple unbreakable cipher system is presented which uses the concept of "pseudo-bits" that has never been used in either classical or quantum cryptography.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arindam Mitra

We propose an application for near-term quantum devices: namely, generating cryptographically certified random bits, to use (for example) in proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies. Our protocol repurposes the existing "quantum supremacy"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Scott Aaronson , Shih-Han Hung

In known security reductions for the Fujisaki-Okamoto transformation, decryption failures are handled via a reduction solving the rather unnatural task of finding failing plaintexts given the private key, resulting in a Grover search bound.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Kathrin Hövelmanns , Andreas Hülsing , Christian Majenz

Public-key quantum money is a cryptographic proposal for using highly entangled quantum states as currency that is publicly verifiable yet resistant to counterfeiting due to the laws of physics. Despite significant interest, constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Prabhanjan Ananth , Zihan Hu , Henry Yuen

The ever-increasing need for random numbers is clear in many areas of computer science, from neural networks to optimization. As such, most common programming language provide easy access to Pseudorandom Number Generators. However, these…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Nils van den Honert , Diederick Vermetten , Anna V. Kononova

Our aim is to experimentally study the possibility of distinguishing between quantum sources of randomness--recently proved to be theoretically incomputable--and some well-known computable sources of pseudo-randomness. Incomputability is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Monica Dumitrescu , Karl Svozil

Error-correcting codes and related combinatorial constructs play an important role in several recent (and old) results in computational complexity theory. In this paper we survey results on locally-testable and locally-decodable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Luca Trevisan

The protection of confidential information is a global issue and block encryption algorithms are the most reliable option. The famous information theorist, Claude Shannon has given two desirable characteristics that should exist in a strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Muhammad Fahad Khan , Khalid Saleem , Tariq Shah , Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi , Ismail Bahkali , Piyush Kumar Shukla